Space News

The government shutdown brought research at NASA facilities around the United States to a standstill when it went into effect on Oct. 1. At NASA's Ames Research Center in California, scientific research is at a standstil...

Astronomers are studying a wispy rose-shaped galaxy some 350 million light years away, looking for clues to the violent collision that likely created this celestial bloom.

Move over Star Trek! According to state-of-the art theory, a warp drive could cut the travel time between stars from tens of thousands of years to weeks or months. Harold G. White, a physicist and advanced propulsion eng...

A new book, "Five Billion Years of Solitude," takes reader from the earliest SETI searches and discoveries in astrobiology to the latest detections of thousands of planets orbiting other stars — all while giving us a g...